CESQA : Risk Assessment necessary to keep it under control The more frequently used Risk Assessment method can be split in the three following stages Description of the object of the study Identification of potential hazards Assessment of potential risks According to the importance of the determined risk elimination or reduction risk programs can be defined applied and checked Terminology Reference terminology is the following Risk it refers to the hazardousness of an event and it is determined by the product through P probability of the event occurrence and S severity Probability P it refers to the probability of occurrence of the undesired event taking into consideration the preventive measures existing at the assessment time Severity S also called Magnitude M it refers to the seriousness of the undesired event s consequences Hazard source of risk it refers to the entity or the event that can cause damages The following table is an applicative example of the Risk Matrix resulted from the combination of three categories of probability and three categories of severity Unlikely Likely Highly likely Not dangerous Irrelevant Tolerable Moderate Dangerous Tolerable Moderate Actual Highly dangerous Moderate Actual Intolerable The following recommendations can be associated to each of the 5 categories of

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CESQA : Ethical Certification the ethical degree and the social responsibility of an organization These standards are applicable to organizations in any industry sector with the aim of assessing compliance with minimum requirements in terms of human and social rights SA 8000 standard compliance can even be verified by an independent third party certification body in a similar way as for Quality Management Systems ISO 9001 Environment ISO 14001 and Safety OHSAS 18001 The

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CESQA : IMS: Integrated Management Systems Quality, Environment, Safety Current development of Organizational Management Systems standards either related to Quality Safety or Environment rises from increasing companies needs to operate in a whole efficiency and effectiveness way An organization operating on the market as a supplier cannot be reliable unless it shows skills for providing proper feedbacks to expectations and demands from its main interested stakeholders its customers as far as Quality management is concerned its employees and collaborators as far as the aspects related to safety and health are concerned owners in terms of return of continual investments in time staff with regard to the issues related to norms of responsible behaviour starting with the environmental behaviour Actually the protection of the stakeholders demands is the object of several voluntary norms Since the end of the 80 s these standards have joined the necessary legal provisions concerning the aspects of Quality Environment and Safety In addition to these elements the increase of interest taking place in the industry and services in the systems management requires a strong integration between the systems themselves towards leaner organization and leaner overall management while in full compliance with the specific requirements of reference Currently because of the lack of specific regulations references

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CESQA : Integrated Audit - Quality, Environment, Safety UNI EN ISO 9001 UNI EN ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 can be defined as a systematic documented periodic and objective analysis of the management system of an organization s activities and of the procedures related to the observance of the quality environmental and safety requirements As far as the methods of planning carrying out and registration are concerned the audit is a common element of the three standards whose

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